An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments -
The Call to Decolonize: Thoughts, Actions, and Spaces
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Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
Posted on February 12, 2021 | 2 Comments -
Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies
Posted on February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment -
Ch´ol Creation Story: The Origin of Life on Earth
Posted on February 4, 2021 | 2 Comments
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering from the Trees
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Wall Street Archive
The Big Short: A Culture Charmed by a Smiling Oligarchy
Posted on January 8, 2016 | No CommentsGuy Zimmerman, in reviewing the new Wall Street film The Big Short, muses on the desperate conformity required in today's entertainment in this new Gilded Age of oligarchy and disempowerment that has overtaken culture in the U.S.On Labor and Inequality: Reign of the One Percenters
Posted on September 9, 2015 | No CommentsIn honor of Labor Day and the continuing inequality in the U.S. economic system, Christopher Ketcham's essay was published a Occupy Wall Street was taking off in 2011. The problem continues: money given out in Wall Street bonuses in 2014 was twice the amount all minimum-wage workers earned combined.Sorry, Democrats, Hillary Clinton is Not a Progressive
Posted on May 2, 2015 | 7 CommentsWhat kind of President would Hillary Clinton be? According to her record, she has consistently favored big business, multinational billionaires and the national security state, at the expense of the "everyday Americans" she claims to "champion." Not in the least progressive.Libertarianism Failure: Inequality and the Repeal of Public Protections
Posted on May 28, 2014 | No CommentsIn a nation that prides itself on democracy and equality, one finds many defenders of elitism and inequality among some conservatives, most libertarians, and especially objectivists. In a capitalist nation, one that often worships economic success above morality, one can find religious defenses of amorality going back pretty far. How did we get here?Detroit Follows Cyprus: Make Pensioners Pay for Bankruptcy
Posted on August 6, 2013 | 1 CommentEllen Brown writes on how the Detroit bankruptcy seeks to sacrifice pensioners to pay off the big banks, appearing like the "bail-in" template pushed upon Cyprus which restructured their insolvent banks using depositors funds while sparing those from other banks and governments. Stephen Colbert sums up the situation with some levity as Detroit fights its way back to solvency.